The Microsoft Digital Crimes Unit has gone to court to seize 41 domains alleged to have been used by an Iranian cybercrime group called Bohrium. The Bohrium group ran a targeted email spear-phishing operation against organizations in the US, Middle East, and India. As part of the operation they would pose …
Ransomware attacks – just in case you have forgotten that any organisation can be compromised – three tips to help you face up to the threat
Bored with ransomware stories? Read this one, it has a very nice Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy reference. There have been a flurry of ransomware attacks in the news recently – but these are only the ones that make the headlines. Louisiana authorities investigating ransomware attack on city of Alexandria …
Phishing email alert – Excel spreadsheets loaded with RATs
Fortinet’s FortiGuard Labs threat intelligence have been tracking phishing emails that contain a triple threat of remote access trojans – RATS. The package is contained in an infected Microsoft Excel document and once the recipient of the email makes the mistake of opening the file – because the file name …
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Anatomy of a phishing email
Awareness of the variations of phishing email attacks is a big step in defending against them – that I why I always try and post about any in depth analysis of phishing emails and their payloads that SANS Internet Storm Centre runs. HTML phishing attachments – now with anti-analysis features …
IBM 726 dual tape drive. A Platinum Jubilee Fact.
There was a time, in TV and movie history, when if you needed to show a really powerful computer, then it needed lots of big cabinets with big spinning tapes – for example have a look at the image above from the 1964 film Dr Strangelove or the example below …
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